[UPDATE] CFP: Narrative Scale and the Limits of the Sensible (2011 Intl. Conference on Narrative, April 7–11)

We welcome paper proposals on narrative scale in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century fiction, film, or visual media for the 2011 International Conference on Narrative. We are specifically interested in essays exploring the relationship between narrative representation and what the selection of scale brings to view or obscures. For example, what is made legible if we imagine literary history in terms of blunt dates (like the annular study) rather than in terms of broad conceptual markers (like modernity)? Or what is the relationship between evolution as metaphor bounded by narrative and scientific evolutionary theory? Particular areas of interest might include:

Please email 300-word abstracts to Katie Muth (krmuth@artsci.wustl.edu) by 25 October, 2010. Panel organizers: Katie R. Muth and Dustin Iler, Washington University in St. Louis. The 2011 International Conference on Narrative will be held from April 7–11 at Washington University in St. Louis. For details, see http://narrative.wustl.edu/.